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Jesuit Superior General: “No country has a right to turn away migrants” AUG 28, 2019 3:00 PM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS 1 COMMENT The superior general of the Jesuits, Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, has declared “that no country has the right to turn away migrants” because in his view, “the goods of the land are for everyone.” Sosa also claims that “migrants come to make a contribution, which is greater than what they receive from the host country”; never mind the advancement of Islamization, and Germany’s admission that 75% of its migrants face long-term unemployment and life on benefits, and the...

But judging from the recent past, the reported refusal of a Cincinnati business to serve a gay man is unlikely to prompt across-the-board national outrage for one reason: The man is a supporter of President Trump. He says that was the reason given for why he was rejected as a customer. The gay Trump supporter is named Scott Ford and he discussed the incident with me over the phone. He says he planned an event for 20-30 people. When the owner of the business — where he says he’d been “a loyal customer for two years” — asked what the...

It can be shown for the first time after a near complete skull of Australopithecus anamensis was found in Ethiopia. The ape-like adult male was about 5ft and weighed about 100lbs. Females were about 3ft 5in and around 62lbs. An upper jaw was found first. Dr Yohannes Haile-Selassie, of Cleveland Museum of Natural History, told journal Nature: “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I spotted the rest. "It was a dream come true.” "This is a game changer in our understanding of human evolution during the Pliocene." Professor Fred Spoor, an expert in anatomy at London's Natural History Museum, said...

The U.S.-China trade war is clearly putting a dent in China’s economy, but it seems to be helping other countries in Asia. Vietnam is the most prominent beneficiary. “We’ve already seen in our seaborne shipping data that a drop in imports from China has been substituted by supplies from other countries,” wrote Chris Rogers, an analyst at the trade-data provider Panjiva, in an email to Barron’s. “For example in July, total U.S. seaborne imports from China fell by 3.0% year over year while those from Vietnam climbed 28.5% and shipments from India and Thailand rose 17.6% and 16.0% respectively.” While...

Video at link. Yesterday the New York Post reported that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is having an affair with Democratic strategist Tim Mynett. The allegation was made in divorce papers filed by his wife. In July, Omar filed for divorce from her current husband. A refresher: Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday. It...

Former NFL quarterback, now activist Colin Kaepernick might have some skeletons in his closet he doesn’t want the world knowing about. According to the International Business Times, Kaepernick at one point in his career was in a relationship with a transgender woman (also known as a male). Transgender model Mia Isabella said she and San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick were once in a romantic relationship. This is what Mia told ibtimes.com: “I loved him very much and he cared for me greatly, but in order to protect his brand I made him walk away from me. Knowing the persecution...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week sounded the alarm that recent measles outbreaks have put the 2000 declaration of the disease having been eliminated at risk, according to a CNN report. The ongoing outbreaks have created a “reasonable chance” the nation will lose measles elimination status in October, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told the network. "It certainly is incredibly frustrating and upsetting to the public health community that we may lose measles elimination status, because we do have a safe and effective vaccine," she told CNN....

Israel Defense Forces Strike Hamas Targets in Gaza 22:03 28.08.2019(updated 22:07 28.08.2019) The Israel Defense Forces announced through its Twitter account late Wednesday that the service's aircrafts had attacked Hamas positions in northern Gaza as a response to a previous projectile launched toward Israeli territory.

New York’s elite private-school community is “furious” over a state proposal to give the city Department of Education oversight of their kids’ curricula — and they’re fighting back, insiders told The Post. The blanket Albany proposal is primarily intended to ensure that ­yeshiva students get quality secular instruction, but private-school parents are growing worried as September nears that the shift could open a back door for the government to meddle with their kids’ educations.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he would not be seeking the presidency if it weren’t for the white supremacist violence that occurred in Charlottesville in August 2017 and President Donald Trump’s response to it. At a fundraiser in Richmond, about an hour east of Charlottesville, Biden said he had been prepared to re-enter private life after forgoing a run against Hillary Clinton in 2016. “I had not planned on running for the presidency,” Biden said. “And I mean that sincerely.” Biden said his calculation changed “when those folks came out of the fields carrying those torches, chanting...

Democrats eye action on threat of white nationalism BY MIKE LILLIS - 08/28/19 06:00 AM EDT Democrats on Capitol Hill are pressing hard to adopt tougher gun laws following a pair of mass shootings this month that horrified the country and rekindled the on-again, off-again push to install higher barriers to owning firearms. But as Congress prepares to return to Washington next month from the long summer recess, Democrats also want to go a step further to tackle another scourge they consider to be related: the threat of violent white nationalism that, according to federal law enforcers, is on the...

UK: Muslim doctor who blamed sex attack on “Pakistani culture” allowed to return to work AUG 28, 2019 2:00 PM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS The safety of female employees at Trafford General Hospital in Greater Manchester, England is secondary to the perceived need to kowtow to Muslim migrants. In this case, a medical doctor who sexually assaulted a student nurse is back at the hospital and in a position to threaten the safety of other nurses and also of female patients in the hospital: A Pakistani doctor who blamed his sexual assault on a student nurse on the different “cultural norms”...

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP! Incoming Palestinian infiltrator headed for Harvard University, has visa revoked at airport and is deported AUGUST 28, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM Ismail B. Ajjawi, who lives in Tyre, Lebanon, arrived in the country Friday evening intent on starting fall classes at the prestigious Ivy League school, but never made it out of Boston Logan International airport because his visa was revoked. The student, who was immediately deported, said that he was confronted about anti-American social media posts from online friends. BizPacReview According to Ajjawi, who had planned to pursue a degree in Chemical and Physical Biology (good...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump will hit one of his favorite political targets — California — with a mid-September fundraising visit to the liberal bastion of the San Francisco Bay area, in addition to Beverly Hills and San Diego. A “save the date” invite shows that the president will visit the Bay Area region on Sept. 17 for an event at an undisclosed location hosted by RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, co-chair Tommy Hicks Jr., RNC Finance Chairman Todd Ricketts and Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. Trump will also head to Southern California in his fourth trip as president to...

Monday presented a question. Did that new Monmouth poll with a suspiciously small sample capture the start of an avalanche in Grandpa Joe’s support, with Biden dropping 13 points(!) in two months, or was it an outlier?Wednesday brings the answer. Outlier, per new surveys from Morning Consult, Suffolk, and Quinnipiac, each of which finds him winning about a third of Dem primary voters and maintaining a healthy lead over Warren and Sanders.In fact, it’s such an outlier that Monmouth itself issued a press release today saying yep, it’s an outlier.I make this solemn pledge to you, though: I will...

A memo issued to staff at the Washington Post confirms the newsroom in their Washington, D.C., headquarters was infested with cockroaches. "We have a growing pest problem,” said director of newsroom operations Jillian S. Jarrett in an office memo. "We’ve gotten several reports of cockroaches in the newsroom." The report of the insect infestation at the Washington Post closely mirrors a bedbug infestation at the New York Times. An internal memo sent to New York Times newsroom staff on Monday confirmed the presence of bedbugs. "During an extermination sweep of the newsroom over the weekend, we discovered evidence of bedbugs...

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) When the top line of a new poll is not the real story.– I laughed out loud when I saw the topline numbers of the new Emerson College poll that was released this morning. My laughter was totally at the expense of Irish Bob O’Rourke, who has now dropped below the likes of Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang in the pecking order of this particular poll. Mere words cannot express the amount of pleasure it gives this 7th-generation Texan to see this fraudulent circus clown falling down into...

When it comes to reaching a trade deal with China, President Trump<Donald John TrumpSenate Democrats warn Trump: Don't invite Putin to G-7 Trump blames Fed for manufacturing slowdown Pence responds to Haley tweet: I'm looking forward to running with Trump in 2020 MORE may be his own worst enemy. Instead of accepting that he already has achieved the bulk of U.S. negotiating objectives — and effectively won the trade war — the president has been sidetracked by procedural issues and negotiating gambits that distract from the overall success of the administration’s policy. Just last Friday, the president created a...

In a free enterprise system, some businesses prosper while some do not. Success and failure are simply a byproduct of the free market that should be expected. And when businesses fail due to market conditions, it should not be the responsibility of the federal government to bail them out or give them special treatment. So why then is conjecture building once again that key members of the Trump administration still want to revive plans to bail out failing power plants? Last year, the Department of Energy was trying to use its power to revitalize a handful of well-connected but economically...

The president's personal attorney tells NBCU brass that legal proceedings could be pursued if there's no retraction or apology for stating that "Russian oligarchs" co-signed loans to Trump. Donald Trump is ratcheting up his war with the media, as if such thing was conceivable. On Wednesday, his personal attorney Charles Harder threatened NBCUniversal with a defamation suit over what was broadcast the previous night on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. A missive sent to NBCU headquarters, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, also addresses a related tweet. According to Harder's demand letter, "The Program and Tweet make the false...